Geriatrics and Gerontology Academy · MINC-GG-001
Healthy Ageing and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
This 40-hour module develops safe, ethical and context-responsive competence in healthy ageing and comprehensive geriatric assessment. It comprises 40 one-hour units using guided reading, cases, practice products, knowledge checks, reflection and applied assessment.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Healthy Ageing and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment prepares health workers in Uganda to describe the biology and diversity of ageing and what age-friendly care means, and builds from there to produce a care plan and review it over time.
What you will be able to do
- Explain core concepts, professional responsibilities and limits.
- Use structured assessment and reliable practical tools.
- Apply evidence-informed decisions with safety, ethics and escalation safeguards.
- Adapt safely to realistic Ugandan resource constraints.
- Communicate, document, reflect and improve performance.
Units
- Biology and diversity of ageing: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Biology and diversity of ageing: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Biology and diversity of ageing: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Biology and diversity of ageing: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Biology and diversity of ageing: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Age-friendly and person-centred care: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Age-friendly and person-centred care: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Age-friendly and person-centred care: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Age-friendly and person-centred care: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Age-friendly and person-centred care: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Functional and mobility assessment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Functional and mobility assessment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Functional and mobility assessment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Functional and mobility assessment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Functional and mobility assessment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Cognition and mood screening: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Cognition and mood screening: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Cognition and mood screening: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Cognition and mood screening: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Cognition and mood screening: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Nutrition and frailty assessment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Nutrition and frailty assessment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Nutrition and frailty assessment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Nutrition and frailty assessment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Nutrition and frailty assessment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Social support and caregiver assessment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Social support and caregiver assessment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Social support and caregiver assessment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Social support and caregiver assessment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Social support and caregiver assessment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Care planning and longitudinal review: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Care planning and longitudinal review: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Care planning and longitudinal review: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Care planning and longitudinal review: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Care planning and longitudinal review: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
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